Digital Photography: A to Z (Part 10)

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Jaggies:
Slang term for the stair-stepped appearance of a curved or angled line in digital image. The smaller the pixels, and the greater their number, the less apparent the "jaggies". Also known as pixelisation.

Java:
A programing language developed by SUN Microsystem. It is a powerful and much more complex programing language- in the same category as C and C++.

Digital Photography: A to Z (Part 09)

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IC Card:
A smart card, chip card and integrated circuit card (ICC), is an pocket-sized card with embedded integrated circuits. It contains volatile memory and microprocessor components. The card is made of plastic, generally polyvinyl chloride. It may also provide strong security authentication for single sign-on (SSO) with large organizations.

iD Photo MO Disk:
The smallest rewritable optical storage medium for digital cameras. A joint development from Olympus, Sanyo and Hitachi Maxell. It features an amazing capacity of 730 MB. This means about 2000 photos can be taken before the media needs to be changed.

Illustrator:
Popular vector graphics program from Adobe.

Digital Photography: A to Z (Part 08)

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Hand-held exposure meter:
External exposure meter (exposure meter, reflected light meter)

Hard disk drive (HDD):
Device for the permanent storage of programs and information that remains after a computer has been turned off.

Digital Photography: A to Z (Part 07)

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GB:
Gigabyte. 1 GB=1024 MB

GIF:
The Graphic Interchange Format is a bitmap image format that was introduced by CompuServe in 1987. The format supports up to 8 bits per pixel thus allowing a single image to reference a palette of up to 256 distinct colors. The colors are chosen from the 24-bit RGB color space. It also supports animation and allows a separate palette of 256 colors for each frame.

Digital Photography: A to Z (Part 06)

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FAQ:
Frequently Asked Question.

FDD:
Flexible or floppy Disc Drive. A storage medium with a capacity of 1.44 MB.

Digital Photography: A to Z (Part 05)

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Email:

A world-wide electronic mail system. Digitized data can be sent almost immediately throughout the world via telephone lines using only a PC. Every email user has his or her own internationally distinct address where he or she can be reached electronically. Files, such as digital pictures, can be sent with any email message.

EPS:

Encapsulated PostScript. A computer file format based on the PostScript standard. It is supported by most graphic design and page layout programs. In addition to the PostScript code, the EPS file also contains a low resolution PICT.